from him. What has it advantaged him to have
escaped the plague of war and fled through the hottest of
the Argive fires, to have drained to the dregs all those
dangers by sea and on broad earth, while the Teucrians 35
are in quest of Latium and a restored Pergamus? Give
back, great sire, to our wretched nation their Xanthus and
their Simois, and let the Teucrians enact once more the old
tragedy of Ilium.” Then outspoke queenly Juno, goaded
by fierce passion: “Why force you me to break my deep
silence, and give forth in words my buried grief? Your